Careers Job Description
General Description
Since 2006 the Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center / CUNY has developed sophisticated, powerful, and user-friendly web map applications for a diverse set of partner organizations, philanthropic foundations, and CUNY researchers. We seek to hire a Senior Application Developer to continue this work developing interactive applications centered around – though not limited to – maps and related data visualizations.
In particular, you will be designing and building robust applications that address important policy and research issues related to demographics (such as the upcoming 2020 Census and subsequent redistricting initiatives), immigration trends, voter patterns, environmental issues, transportation infrastructure, and more. Our applications are primarily online, but may also include desktop or mobile applications. You can access links to several current applications plus a description of the Mapping Service at http://www.gc.cuny.edu/urbanresearchmaps.
We work with a mix of open source and proprietary tools and techniques such as Leaflet, platform-agnostic web services, a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries, and GIS applications including ESRI’s software suite, MapInfo, and open source GIS packages. We develop our online apps in Visual Studio but can accommodate other options.
Ideally this position will be a full-time, long-term arrangement. We are open, however, to considering shorter-term, part-time arrangements.
Other Duties
Benefits and work environment:
You will be part of a small, agile team – the CUNY Mapping Service – at the Center for Urban Research (CUR) within the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan. The Graduate Center is a dynamic and well-respected institution within the City University of New York, home to CUNY’s PhD program, many academic research centers such as CUR, and high-profile public policy discussions and initiatives. The Center for Urban Research works closely with CUNY researchers and students, public agencies, nonprofit partners, and others to undertake basic research and applied initiatives addressing issues facing New York and other large cities.
Our work environment provides flexibility, relies on a collaborative design and development process, and draws inspiration from our colleagues throughout the Graduate Center and CUNY overall as well as the organizations for whom we develop applications.
The Research Foundation of CUNY manages employment benefits. As a Research Foundation employee, after 90 days full-time employment you will be eligible for RF’s pension, health insurance, life insurance, and long-term disability plans.
Qualifications
Required skills and expertise include:
- 3+ years web application development experience.
- Expertise with JavaScript frameworks and libraries for interactive web development (including CSS and HTML).
- Familiarity with GIS concepts and data structures.
- Experience with interactive geospatial frameworks and services such as Leaflet, MapBox, Carto, ArcGIS Online, and Google’s mapping services.
The ideal candidate will also have the following:
- Experience or familiarity developing websites and web services with ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API (we have several legacy applications built with these tools).
- Experience with relational database management software (preferably Microsoft SQL Server or Postgres SQL).
- Experience with user-centered design.
- Familiarity with Internet server architecture (we use IIS in a Windows environment).
- Understanding of data visualization concepts and techniques.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Center for Urban Research
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Mar 14, 2019 (Or Until Filled)